The Luxury of Tears: A Secondary Survivor's Story

As the written accompaniment for The Luxury of Tears, a twelve-minute documentary video exploring the emotional impact of sexual assault on male survivors and their partners, this document examines the visual texts of both the fiction and nonfiction genres. Specifically, I contend that fiction film manufactures male survivorship with regard to rape events in such manner which contributes to the thematization of social silence. Such silence perpetuates the feminization of rape as a social problem, and dissolves the development of male survivor resources. A discussion of production processes, challenges, and resolutions is included.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

1999

Author dc:creator

• McKinney, Kelli

Contributors dc:contributor

• Levin, C. Melinda
• Levin, Ben
• Negra, Diane

• Documentary films -- Production and direction.
• Male rape -- Psychological aspects.
• Documentary
• sexual assault
• male survivors
• emotional impact
• fiction and nonfiction genres

Statement dc:rights

• Use restricted to UNT Community
• Copyright
• McKinney, Kelli
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 51524034
untcat: b2474762
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2273/
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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